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The Republican leading in the runoff race in Alabama's Senate primary appears to have no idea what one of the biggest political issues of the moment even is. In a July 11 interview with "The Dale Jackson Show" on local radio WVNN , and uncovered Friday by Washington Examiner columnist Philip Wegmann , Judge Roy Moore appears totally stumped on what the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is -- you know, the one that's been a rallying cry on the right for liberal overreach for years, and the one President Trump has said he'll decide about over the weekend, and the one some Republicans in Congress are paradoxically encouraging him to keep.
Rep. James Bridenstine, R-Okla., was selected as administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Bridenstine serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the Science, Space, and Technology Committee.
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U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine has been nominated to be the next administrator of NASA, the White House announced Friday night. Bridenstine, a 42-year-old Tulsa Republican, had taken the unusual approach of making clear his interest in the job.
The Trump administration sent Congress a request Friday for almost $8 billion in initial relief for Hurricane Harvey victims and suggested the assistance be authorized in tandem with a measure to raise the federal debt ceiling, a move that House Republicans are unlikely to embrace. In a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan requesting the storm aid, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney stops short of explicitly asking for the two to be linked.
President Donald Trump's initial request for a multibillion-dollar down payment for initial Harvey recovery efforts is growing. Republican leaders are already making plans to use the aid package, certain to be overwhelmingly popular, to win speedy approval of a contentious increase in the federal borrowing limit.
The White House has said that President Trump will announce on Tuesday his decision whether to keep DACA in place or to gut it as he promised during the election. Meanwhile, several top Republicans including Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. Orrin Hatch have urged the president not to terminate the policy .
Backers of the treaty argue that without renegotiation of NAFTA, the forecast growth of U.S. liquefied gas to Mexico would be compromised. Mexico isn't buying our gas because of NAFTA, but due to the proximity and reliability of our gas supply.
IN a narrow 5-4 decision, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a new car tax is not subject to the Oklahoma Constitution's 75 percent supermajority requirement for enacting new taxes. The court said lawmakers didn't need supermajorities to remove tax The practical effect is that lawmakers are now free to approve literally billions in tax increases - as that term would be understood by a layman - with only simple majorities.
With the automobile sales tax decided, lawmakers are expected to finalize plans for a special session. The session, if it happens, likely won't be announced until the governor and legislative leaders agree on how to address a $215 million shortfall caused by the Oklahoma Supreme Court's rejection of an unconstitutional cigarette fee.
Ashley Aples saw the chaos and panic engulf Houston in just a few days, and he knew from experience it was time to flee. He did so 12 years ago when Hurricane Katrina ravaged his hometown of New Orleans and forced him to rebuild his life in Texas.
President Donald Trump will announce his decision on the DACA program protecting young undocumented immigrants on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday gave a major boost to legislative efforts to preserve the program.
The White House says President Donald Trump will announce a decision Tuesday on the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children - immigrants the president is calling "terrific" and says he loves. "We love the dreamers, we love everybody," Trump told reporters Friday, using a shorthand term for the nearly 800,000 young people who were given a reprieve from deportation and temporary work permits under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program created by the Obama administration.
The special counsel investigating potential ties between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia is reviewing a letter drafted by the President and a top aide in the days before the firing of FBI Director James Comey that lays out in detail why he wanted to get rid of him, according to people familiar with the Mueller probe. The Justice Department turned over a copy of the letter, which was drafted by Trump and top aide Stephen Miller, to special counsel Robert Mueller in recent weeks, the New York Times first reported Friday, citing interviews with a dozen administration officials and others briefed on the matter.
A trip by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, to Kentucky last month is under review by the Treasury Department's Inspector General, a government official told CNN on Friday. Jaws dropped in August when Linton posted a picture of herself on Instagram stepping out of a U.S. government plane.
President Donald Trump is facing increasing pressure from CEOs, Roman Catholic bishops, celebrities and a national mobilization effort as he weighs eliminating an Obama-era program that shields young immigrants from deportation. The last-ditch effort has taken on greater urgency in recent days amid reports that the White House may end the program.
Many people who knew or worked with Kukula Glastris described her as "the kindest" or "the most generous" person they had known. It's a big world, and titles like that can be contested.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said to a Wisconsin radio station on Friday "I actually don't think" President Donald Trump should rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals , which was put in place by Barack Obama to allow 800,000 young illegal immigrants to work legally and prevent their deportation. He added that this is "something Congress has to fix."
According to a snide John Harwood, Republicans lack the "maturity" to govern, handle taxes and raise the debt ceiling. The CNBC editor appeared on MSNBC, Friday, to complain about Trump and the GOP: "This is the kind of thing that ought to be easy but what we've seen in the last few years is that the Republican Party has not shown the maturity to govern effectively in a consistent way."